I’ve got a powerhouse PC - i9 24 core CPU, 128GB mem, NVMe drives, Cubase Pro 14, etc…
EZ and Superior Drummer 3 (in particular) - When using the plugin within Cubase, the library samples take about 2 minutes to load. When using either outside of Cubase (as a standalone app) the library samples load in about 2 seconds.
Same with Kontakt, but I haven’t experimented as much with that…
Even when I had a slower / older DAW, the Toontrack stuff used to load within 20 seconds or so in older versions of Cubase.
I haven´t noticed any lags like that with latest Kontakt. it might hang for a few seconds when opening the gui but the loadings are pretty decent for me
I just tried loading some SD3 libraries within Cubase. Most finished loading in 7 to 10 seconds… the longest was 15 seconds.
Tried it again standalone and the load times were the same.
Cubase Pro 14.0.20
Windws 11 24H2
i7 14700K with 64 GB memory
Samsung 970 SSD
Kontakt 7 is, even after various updates, far too slow loading libraries. I have heard that V8 is ‘better’ by some unspecified quantity but I haven’t updated yet so can’t confirm.